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Re: Z packet support in Gdbserver?

From: Orjan Friberg <orjan dot friberg at axis dot com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:05:20 +0200
Subject: Re: Z packet support in Gdbserver?
Organization: Axis Communications
References: <40B3650C.5090800@axis.com> <20040525152659.GA22274@nevyn.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:


It's much simpler than that: gdbserver does not support hardware
watchpoints.  No one's ever implemented it.  As a copy/paste exercise
it would not be too hard; I still have pipe dreams of sharing the code
with GDB someday.

Ah, that explains it. So what's needed is basically two new function pointers in struct target_ops (insert_watchpoint/remove_watchpoint) and a snippet of code in server.c to recognize the z/Z packets. (I assume that's what you meant by copy/paste exercise.)

--
Orjan Friberg
Axis Communications

References:
- Z packet support in Gdbserver?
  - From: Orjan Friberg
- Re: Z packet support in Gdbserver?
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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